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Very disappointing to see that there are almost no benchmark quoted in this thread, only words like "snappy" or hypothetical questions. I have been reading articles to understand if converting some of our JS code to WebAssembly could lead to significant performance improvements and other benefits, and I have yet to come to a conclusion. I have seen dumbed-down examples that don't actually mean anything in the real projects, some anecdotal numbers, and other performance comparisons based on proprietary codebase which don't really help. I would advise that people be cautiously optimistic about WebAssembly -- the benefits may not be worth the effort.

Have you seen the video posted in the parent, by the creator of leptos (a rust webassembly framework)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KtotxNAwME

The benchmarks being displayed have leptos beating react in nearly every category.

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